Jessica Portner
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Our Dinosaur Librarian
Meet Maureen Walsh, Collections Manager of the Dinosaur Institute, who protects and presides over the Museum’s world-class collection of thousands of specimens spanning the millions of years dinosaurs stomped, darted, and soared around our prehistoric planet
Rare Purple Snail Lands Here
The shells of a violet-colored sea snail, Janthina janthina, washed up on SoCal beaches recently.
In Hot Water
As the ocean temperature continues to rise, how are the Pacific’s flora and fauna faring, adapting— or not—and how can people help?